Rings, amulets, ear-rings, neck-pendants, proved in their workmanship the deftness of the goldsmith's art.

Cloaks were often fastened with golden buckles of curious and exquisite form, set sometimes with rough jewels and inlaid with enamel.

The bronze boar-crest on the warrior's helmet, the intricate adornment of the warrior's shield, tell like the honour in which the smith was held their tale of industrial art.

The curiously twisted glass goblets, so common in the early graves of Kent, are shewn by their form to be of English workmanship.

It is only in the English pottery, hand-made, and marked with coarse zigzag patterns, that we find traces of utter rudeness.
[Sidenote: Religion] The religion of these men was the same as that of the rest of the German peoples.